The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11

Dora on Monday, which measured six feet
from tip TO tip.
Mosaley & Co, is the name Of new bust
ness firm at Madison, the members of which
are 7. G. MoSeley and H. b. Creech.
Several large land sales have taken place
the past week, and several thousand dollars
more of Western capital has been invested
in Levy County lands,
Experiments have shown conclusiveiy
that asparagus will thrive in Florida, and
it is even claimed that it will pay better
| than strawberry culture.
At their recent meeting the County Com
| missioners decided to call an election Thurs
day, Dec 1, 1887, to decide on location for
the permanent county seat of Osceola.
! Ocalas City Council has granted to A. E.
! Waterman the right TO establish the West
! inGhouse electric light in the city for five
years. 1t is to be put in operation at once.
Sheriff Galloway, of Lake county, has
| already appointed two deputies-Frank
| Roberts, of Altoona, and Mr.. Northrup, at
| Leesburg, the latter formerly a deputy in
! Sumter county.
Parties have made a proposition to the
| business men of Tallahassee to establish a
compress there, if the citizens will donate
| ground on which To erect it. They have
1 been notified to come to Tallahassee and
| select Site
D. D. lbDDtIlS, OI lNb llTIIl Vi u. ID. JlODtTlS
| & Co., Atlanta, Ga, is now closing out his
business interests in Atlanta as to move
with his family to Tampa about Oct. /, to
| join II. w. Fuller in the wholesale grain,
grocery and fruit business.
At Fort Mason the firm of John N. Bryan
& Co., general merchandise, has been dis
solved, Mr. Bryan and ID. .. Davies retiring.
The business will hereafter be conducted by
John I. Wofford and A. MITCHELL under
the firm name of Wofford & Mitchell
Some valuable property was sold at
Tampa under mortgage on last Monday
The Palmetto House was bid off at IS, 600,
the Carney House at Seffner for 81, 500, and
the Shattuck grove, on Turkey creek, for
500. The property was all bought in by
creditors.
During the past ten years the scrip in
debtedness of Leon county has been reduced
at the rate of IS, 129 81 per year. making a
total reduction of s5i ,29S 20 in the ten
years This was accomplished by the Wis
dom and sagacity of Democratic County
Commissioners.
The noon train was an hour late at Madi-
son Thursday, owing to collision at Ella
Vile, caused by a misplaced switch, which
put the mail train on side track occupied
by freight against which the passenger
ran, breaking off the pilot. One person, we
learn, was slightly injured.
The records show that during the month
of September, 1886, the tonnage which en-
tered Pensacola was 1909 tons Up
TO Sept. S, the tonnage for this
month amounts to 1855 tons, or nearly
1000 more tons in eight days than during
the entire month of September last year.
At Fairbanks, the north-bound mixed
tra''' mat with an accident here at s o'clock
Thursday night The train was long one,
and in making the switch the front
wheels were torn off of a freight car and
the track was torn up for fifty feet. Other
wise little damage was done. A detention
of few hours was caused.
At a meeting of the Building and Loan
Association, of Tallahassee, held recently,
at the court house, the following officers
were elected: President, Edward Lewis;
vice president, l.. d. Ball; treasurer, r. A.
Meguinness; secretary, B. b. Wilson;
directors: w. c.. Lewis, Y. A. Levy, G.. w.
Saxon, R. A. Shine, A. j. Fish.
The Sheriff of Columbia county sold six
negro prisoners to the highest bidder Mon
day, at so much day, by order of the Com
missioners. The parties securing the men
are held responsible for them while they
are in their custody, but in the event any
or all of them escape, the bidders are not
held responsible after that time.
DIR. George Troup Maxwell, of Marion
county, read a paper before the Medical
Congress, at Washington, Thursday, on
THE Influence of Climate in the Produc-
ton Of Cholera Infantum." The point he
made was that the climate of Florida was
much more healthful, particularly in re-
gard to infants, than that of Southern Cali
fornia.
The City Council of Tampa, and Electric
Light Company, have agreed as to the price,
Coo. light per night for arc lights, but have
failed to agree as to the length of time the
contract should be made for The city
agrees TO take the light for Ave years and
the company declines a contract for less
than ten years. A compromise will prob
ably be effected.
+ At Ocala considerable excitement was
created Friday afternoon over the cowhid-
ing of Q. l.. Bittinger. of the Banner, by
| Capt. Mcconnell, for an article in Fridays
paper seriously censuring the lawyers in a
| case before the Commissioners, for the
| whisky, men. Afterward he was attacked
| by j. II. Vereen, in the Banner Office, and
terribly lacerated by vereens tongue
There is considerable complaint by citi-
| zens Of Orlando at not being able to exam
| inc the records of the city government. not
on account of a refusal of the City Clerk to
| give access to the books, or to furnish any
information in his power, but. from the fact
! that the records are taken out of the office
and kept for days, and sometimes for weeks
| The Clerk is the custodian of the records
4 e'iA Nv NiAO lleS bhV w 0SiiAo any ICCOiu
! out of the office.
The new steamship Olivette, of the Plant
| Steamship Line, between Tampa, Key West
| and Havana, liz now in New York undergo
| ing redecoration and renovation for the
| fall and winter passenger season between
the above ports. At the solicitation of
some prominent citizens of New York it
has been decided to place the Olivette in
commission for the international va chit
race, she following the competing yachts
over the course each day, carrying limit
ed number of excursionists
BRANDON Brothers, of Kissimmee, will at
once begin the work Of moving their opera
house TO the back end of the lot, and In front
thereof will proceed 10 erect a three-story
building 36x56 feet. They say that they
propose having the finest building there is
in town, neatly and handsomely furnished,
and as convenient as it is possible TO make
it. The lower floor will contain a fine large
store room fifty-sx feet deep, stairway to
the rooms above, and a hallway to the opera
house in the rear.
Charley Brown Ccolored) has been want
ed for several months in jefferson county
TO answer the crime OF uxoricide committed
last November Sheriff Parramore, of
Madison, recently received description of
him and by the aid Of John Coffee located
Charley near Mr.. Coffees place Last week
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